Re: Footnotes in HTML?

... I guess it s because the background is a .gif of 1x1 pixel. When it loads, you get the swiping effect (far more on the Mac than on PC). This is usually a

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, Mar 10 7:11 AM

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>Thanks, PPK. Sounds easy enough!
>Now, one other trick. Someone gave us the URL for eFAX.
>http://www.efax.com/index.html
>
>Their page is interesting in that it swipes from left to right
>when it loads. Is there a script for that? I did not see it in
>the source...maybe I missed it. Thanks.

I guess it's because the background is a .gif of 1x1 pixel. When it loads,
you get the swiping effect (far more on the Mac than on PC). This is
usually a pretty nasty effect that you want to get rid of ASAP, but I agree
it's kind of OK on this site.

The scripts are just for preloading and image swapping.

ppk

Peter-Paul Koch

... Sorry, the height can t be 1 pixel, but I guess the width is. ppk

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, Mar 10 7:12 AM

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>I guess it's because the background is a .gif of 1x1 pixel.

Sorry, the height can't be 1 pixel, but I guess the width is.

ppk

Jim Hawkins

Thanks again. I think you must be correct. One pixel sweeping across the page makes sense. Neat! Jim Hawkins ============

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, Mar 10 7:21 AM

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Thanks again. I think you must be correct. One pixel sweeping across
the page makes sense. Neat!

>From: Jim Hawkins <JimHawkins@...>
>
>Good idea, Jon. Thanks for the tip. Who can tell me what the code is
>for closing the popup window? I'd like to include that on the popup
>window on my homepage: see below.
>Jim Hawkins
>
>Jon Harding wrote:
>> Another way of approaching it may be to use a small popup window - no >
>title,buttons etc - containing the footnote and a close button.